First I have to explain: before a quake I get sleepy - the farther away, the bigger the quake; closer quakes can be relatively small. It rarely happens now that I've moved from California, but it has occurred. On Saturday I was very sleepy despite loads of coffee. It reminded me of a lighter version of July 2005 when there was a 5.6 in Montana (I'm in CO and barely felt it. Anyway, I watched the maps for Yellowstone either Sat. or Sun. and noticed several micro quakes. Yellowstone is fresh in my mind since we there in July and spent time noticing tree kill and roads being eaten by new hot spots and dry geysers. Yellowstone Lake was most startling. The point is that I noticed this swarm that started NW of the old cauldera at the edge of the park - maybe 4 quakes - then it changed to a single spotin the lake near the big tree (SW corner shore of Yellowstone Lake) kill area. There was another microswarm there. Now, think of a symphony and how instruments, particularly drums, will rumble a few beats and another will answer. That's how I imagine it (I am not musical). Thus we have 2 sets of quakes and then another strikes in the middle of this diagonal. It goes back and forth when another couple of micro quakes appear to the NE. Then they stopped. Today there was a 3.0 to the SW of the line, diagonally across from the NE micro quakes. I'm not 100% sure, but this recent diagonal line cuts across the Yellowstone Lake bulge. It may be nothing but it makes it a sport to watch. Of course, I could find nothing on the state of the park currently, but something may pop up. Beth

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